Giorgio Morandi

Giorgio Morandi

Painting
Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964) is one of those painters I’d like to write about. Like so many artists of his generation he was influenced by the Cubism and like many Italian artists he was under the influence of the Futurism and the metaphysic painting style too. He would deny the metaphysic influence later, tired of being compared to Carrà or De Chirico. Around 1937, he retired to Bologna and started a period of experimentation and further studies related to the physical character of the objects. These experiences would take the rest of his life resulting in a series of very well-known still-life paintings. Morandi, among very few artists, deepened in the pictorial possibilities of the models and stayed true to an idea, both considering the way the models are represented and…
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